The mother of sisters Irina and Alina Tetova, killed in the school hostage taking, mourns during their funeral in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004.
Muscovites stand in line to donate their blood at a blood transfusion center in Moscow, September 5, 2004. The siege, and the storming by troops which ended it with more than 330 dead in the Russia's southern town of Beslan, broke grim new ground, even by the brazen and bloody standards of past Chechen rebels attacks.